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Old 04-09-2006, 08:01 PM   #1
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Silmaril Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works

Welcome to the latest game of Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works.

52 contestants from 5 tribes vie for the title of Most Major Minor. Get out your minor works, boys and girls, because you'll need to re-read just to figure who some of these characters are.

Rules for play are as follows:

Each day vote for who you want to see expelled from the game. Votes will be tallied and the character with the most votes will die or be banished. If there are any ties, the characters tied for the most votes will bite the dust together.

Each day will last 24 hours, starting and ending at Midnight CST (DST). Right now it is 9 PM CST (DST) Sunday April 9th so this first day will be slightly longer, ending at 12 AM Tuesday April 11th.

Vote for who you want gone, thusly:

+ + Tom Bombadil

Votes are retractable up to the deadline and should be done thusly:

- - Tom Bombadil

All votes will be counted, but please give reasons for your votes. Reasons need not be strictly Tolkien related, but reasons should have something to do with the stories, characters, or the game.

The tribes and contestants are as follows:

Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

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Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Tom Bombadil
Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll
Perry-the-Winkle

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
Princess Pam
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

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First day begins now. Have fun!
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Old 04-10-2006, 10:21 AM   #2
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Um *cough*, guys, these characters aren't that obscure. I know who they all are, after all.

If you want a nudge in the beginning direction, I should say I rather expect a fight over old Bombadillo, though I have no control over the matter and it's all up to you people to vote.
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Old 04-10-2006, 11:17 AM   #3
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I know the minor works and their characters well, but I don't have the time to get involved in a game like this, especially not now before the Easter holiday weekend - sorry!
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Old 04-10-2006, 11:23 AM   #4
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Actually Esty with Survivor you can pop in and out of the game as time and inclination permit... so if you ever have a hankerin' to toss in your two cents don't hesitiate.
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Old 04-10-2006, 12:01 PM   #5
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How untoward! Championing the reign of the heir before the predecessor is dead and buried?

Do you honestly expect me to begin killing... er voting... off people here before Tar-Míriel... I mean, before I've officially counted the votes for my own game?

Pffffle!!!

++ Sunny Sam

What kind of a medieval name is that? I mean, "Sunny" sounds vaguely hippy, modernish... More the name of a cartoon character than a blacksmith.

And Sam Gamgee already has dibs on the name "Sam".
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Old 04-10-2006, 12:48 PM   #6
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I should say I rather expect a fight over old Bombadillo ...
I'd hate to disappoint ...

+ + TOM BOMBADIL

Those "hey dol merry dols" really begin to grate after a while. Rather like Elrond's "tra la la lallies".
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Old 04-10-2006, 12:53 PM   #7
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Only Mr Bliss is entirely unknown to me; I've read Roverandom but completely forgotten the contents...

++PRINCESS PAM

Clearly a case of that villainous Tolkien fellow plagiarising Sony's Mariocart, just like the time when he infamously stole the plot of EA Games: Lord of the Rings, and the occasion when he imported the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter.

Honestly, the man should be arrested. Next he'll try ripping off Peter Jackson's Oscar winning masterpiece, The Return of King Kong or whatever.
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Old 04-10-2006, 02:18 PM   #8
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Well, since I can do this without committing myself for the whole game, I will cast a vote for

++The Mewlips

just because they creep me out - and because their poem aggravates me, as it has no direct quotes that I can use for the "minor works" quotes and Palantír threads!

Maybe I need to quote a few lines from the poem to prove my point:
Quote:
The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink...

You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door...

You go to find the Mewlips - and the Mewlips feed.
Who wants to have creatures like that around?! When they say they want to have you over for dinner, the invitation could be the last one you accept!
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Old 04-10-2006, 02:37 PM   #9
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I need to get around to reading Roverandom, so um, raincheck on this game for a little bit....

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Old 04-10-2006, 05:50 PM   #10
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++Everyone other than Tom Bombadil.

Who the heck are they?

Tom saved the hobbits twice. That's worth some merit.
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++The Giant from the Wild Hills

HE boasts about his exploits to the unknown lands but was driven off by a stout little farmer and his talking dog!!! And in order to save face, he claims that the farmer's blunderbuss was a large number of mosquitos!! He is a fool, he should go
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++Everyone other than Tom Bombadil.
Perhaps I should have mentioned this before, but, you can only vote for one character at a time. Everyone other than Tom is 51 contestants.
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Old 04-10-2006, 06:16 PM   #13
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Pipe Eeny Meeny Miney Mo...Who Will Be The First To Go?

++PRINCESS PAM

Princesses are all right in their own way, but in this case I'd much rather see her go then old Bombadil. *glares at Sauice*

And besides that...bandwagoning is such fun!
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Old 04-10-2006, 06:19 PM   #14
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Perhaps I should have mentioned this before, but, you can only vote for one character at a time. Everyone other than Tom is 51 contestants.


Hey, it's better than 51 single posts.

I personally don't think we should have a survivor so soon after a survivor just ended.

just in case...++Sea-serpent.

We already have a freaky water monster and it's the watcher.
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I must admit that I know remarkably few of these characters, having only read some of Roverandom and being familiar with the Tom Bombadil set of characters from LotR...

However, even though I don't mind Tom as much as I used to, I still can't sit by and watch him get anywhere close to the end...

++Hey derry dol's
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Silmaril End of Day the First

The inaugural day of Minor Works Survivor began slowly, with the judges warily eyeing many of the unfamiliar contestants. Votes, when they came, were varied. At the end, two unlucky characters ended up tied:

Tom Bombadil: 2 votes

Princess Pam: 2 votes

Sunny Sam: 1 vote

The Mewlips: 1 vote

The Giant from the Wild Hills: 1 vote

The Sea-serpent: 1 vote

And so, Tom and Pam were literally trussed up together and heaved into the Sea. Tom gave a cry of "Hey derry dol!" with a mysterious wink and Pam, being the Princess of the Sea, simply smiled as she returned to her home with a mighty splash.

Day the Second finds 50 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll
Perry-the-Winkle

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
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++Sea-serpent.

Stop eating the people on our beaches. Middle-Earth is losing economy.
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Old 04-11-2006, 01:27 AM   #18
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++MR BINKS

Along with the rest of his villainous crew, this shady character refuses to reveal his first name. He's obviously a Colombian coke dealer, a Mafioso or a CIA operative.

See you, Giovanni! Not so blasted secretive now!
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Old 04-11-2006, 07:02 AM   #19
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Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!
I suggest we send

++Perry-the-Winkle

away.

He is definitely not thinking of the general welfare of the others, since he eats up all of the food and leaves none for his fellow villagers.
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Not only is he inconsiderate of Niggle during his lifetime, but he goes and plagues him in his afterlife too.
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+ + Mer-dog

The S.P.O.C.S.T. (Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Stone Trolls) sees this vote as a preemptive
strike against future trolls being confused by terms
such as "Burra-hobbits" which tend to
confuse their not capacious intellects.

P.S. Food for thought: for future Survivors, what about an
all-girl Survivors, all-hobbit, and perhaps the most
interesting (certainly the bloodiest) an all-orc Survivor?
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++Perry-the-Winkle

Yeah, what she says.

(I'll be doing this until I've read some of the minor works.)
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End of Day the Second

The second round of voting found more wide-spread opinions on who should go, but only one contestant became the victim of collaberation.

Perry-the-Winkle: 2 votes

The Sea-serpent: 1 vote

Mr. Binks: 1 vote

Mr. Parish: 1 vote

Princess Mee: 1 vote

Mer-dog: 1 vote

And so, Perry-the-Winkle was butchered and his copious amounts of fat were made into butter and spread onto bread. Thus the Poems Tribe took yet another hit.

Day the Third finds 49 remaining contestants:

Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

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The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
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++Sea-serpent.

You woke Ulmo up and now he's cranky. Thanks for sending a hurricane to Middle-Earth.
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++Fattie Dorkins

Poor guy, his name is Fattie Dorkins. Imagine how the schoolkids must tease him! He must be traumatized, having the silliest name on the island. I can just imagine the Latin and Greek named characters picking on him. So he doesn't get too depressed, I'm voting him off the island and back to civilization where he can change his name to something more dignified.
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Alcarillo has unwittingly revealed a shocking
bit of bigotry by JRRT, to wit, his anti-large people
agenda. (Fattie Dorkins, Fatty Lumpkin, Fatty Bolger-
the noblest hobbit of them all). But then again
they are his works, so:
+ + Fattie Dorkins

And let's hope there's no elf singing of
Fat people got no right to live.
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... which you are condoning by voting for the fat one.

+ + MR PARISH

... again. I never liked the chap. He treated Niggle abysmally.
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1,000 Readers can't be wrong, can they? At any rate, the argument for the

++Sea-serpent

is convincing, and I don't like deep water anyway and certainly not storms at sea - except when they're patchwork patterns!


(Storm at Sea patchwork pattern)
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Old 04-12-2006, 12:44 PM   #31
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++King Augustus Bonifacius

He's greedy and lazy. Can someone explain why we're keeping him around?
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Old 04-12-2006, 01:35 PM   #32
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You know, Tuor in Gondolin, I think we're onto something. Just look at the descrimination against Bombur in the Hobbit. When at Beorn's house, Gandalf instructs the dwarves to enter by twos. Listen to what he says to Bombur:
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Bombur is fattest and will do for two, he had better come alone and last.
Shockingly rude! And in Mirkwood, when crossing the enchanted river, Bombur simply asks not to cross last, and is immediately insulted by Thorin.
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"You should not be so fat."
It is undeniable! Tolkien was against large people!
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Old 04-13-2006, 01:47 AM   #33
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Silmaril End of Day the Third

The third round ended late because the moddess forgot all about it, but even this was not enough to save two minor characters:

Fattie Dorkins: 2 votes

The Sea-serpent: 2 votes

Mr. Parish: 1 vote

Farmer Giles: 1 vote

King Augustus: 1 vote


And so, with cries of, "Tolkien was against fat people, and if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for us!" the judges fed Fattie Dorkins to The Sea-serpent. Then they slaughtered the Sea-serpent and made it into chic purses, boots, belts, watch straps, and hat bands.

Day the Fourth finds 47 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

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Badger
Old Man Willow
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Princess Mee
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The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
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Great White Dragon
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Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
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Herbert Dorkins
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Old 04-13-2006, 07:34 AM   #34
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++ Mr. Binks

As was brought up before it's very suspicious that he refuses to reveal his first name. And we all know what a disaster the last "Binks*" was.


*If you're not thinking Star Wars, you should be...
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Old 04-13-2006, 08:21 AM   #35
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+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes

The guy's too much into "tough love" with
a thing against toy dogs.
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Old 04-13-2006, 10:05 AM   #36
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++ Mr. Binks

As was brought up before it's very suspicious that he refuses to reveal his first name. And we all know what a disaster the last "Binks*" was.


*If you're not thinking Star Wars, you should be...
I second the motion. And decisions based on the meanings and/or sounds pertaining to names is VERY Tolkienian. Just look at "The Problem of Ros" or "The Shibboleth of Fëanor".

++ Mr. (Jar Jar) Binks
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Old 04-13-2006, 10:24 AM   #37
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And decisions based on the meanings and/or sounds pertaining to names is VERY Tolkienian. Just look at "The Problem of Ros" or "The Shibboleth of Fëanor."
I second that blindly.
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Old 04-13-2006, 01:30 PM   #38
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Old 04-13-2006, 04:05 PM   #39
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If we're going for a character from the story of Mr. Bliss, I think we should get rid of

++Sergeant Boffin

- after all, when he was called upon to act, he was not needed at all. So why should we need him now?!
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Old 04-13-2006, 04:48 PM   #40
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++Psamathos Psamathides

For sending Rover to the moon without an explanation or much of a reason. And besides, he just sleeps in the sand all day and doesn't help the other survivors with their island duties at all.
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